. A couple of restaurants offer some Mexican food, but the price is prohibitive - $15 for a burrito and rice.

as compared to the $10-$12 dollars you'd expect to spend on a burrito and rice at a mexican restaurant in houston, a town full of mexicans and mexican restaurants? i'm sure there are much, much better examples of prohibitive prices in bethel AK.

shotglasss:Yep, that would be a good place for a new store...a very very busy one at that. Pair it with the KFC and Pizza Hut stores and you'd be a rich person there. The downside is you'd have to live there.

Bethel isn't exactly flush with cash. A chain would have a very difficult time making a go of it, I think.